Question Re: allowing Directors to be paid mileage for travel to Board meetings passed on a vote of 14-7

The newly elected Directors were sworn in at the regular meeting of the Board of Directors on April 17. 2013. There was an election of officers at the meeting,and a roll of the dice established staggered terms (three 2-year terms and four 4-year terms. In the future, all Directors will be elected to 4-year terms).

You will find the NM Statute establishing the Lower Rio Grande Public Water Works Authority and our Governance Document on the Documents page. You'll find information there on the duties of the Board, elections, districts, voting and more. There is a Board Minutes page where you will find the minutes & board packet from board meetings. A schedule of board meetings is located on the Notices page along with the Agenda for the next meeting and other items of interest. The Events page has a calendar showing board meetings, office closures due to holidays, etc.

LRGPWWA Board of Directors, August 2017

L to R: Henry Magallanez, District 5; Jose Evaro, District 3; Furman Smith, Vice Chair, District 7; Esperanza Holguin, Secretary, District 4; Michael McMullen, Chair, District 6, and not in the picture is Raymundo Sanchez, District 1.

Currently serving on the Lower Rio Grande PWWA Board of Directors are:

Raymundo Sanchez, Director

Elected 4/7/15, term expires April 2019

representing the residents of District 1

Email: raymundo.sanchez @ LRGauthority.org

Jose "Joe" Evaro, Director

Elected 4/4/17, term expires April 2021

representing the residents of District 3

Email: joe.evaro @ lrgauthority.org

Esperanza "Espy" Holguin, Secretary

Elected 4/4/17, elected Secretary on April 19, 2017, term expires April 2021, representing the residents of District 4

Email:espy.holguin @ LRGauthority.orgHenry Magallanez, Director

Appointed 8/16/17, term expires April 19, 2021representing the residents of District 5Email: henry.magallanez@LRGauthority.org

Mike McMullen, Chairman

Elected 4/7/15, elected Chairman on April 19, 2017, term expires April 2019,

representing the residents of District 6

Email: mike.mcmullen @ LRGauthority.org

Furman Smith, Vice-Chairman

Elected 4/4/17, elected Vice-Chairman on April 19, 2017, term expires April 2021,

representing the residents of District 7

Email: furman.smith @ LRGauthority.org

Districts 2 & 5 are currently vacantSee the notice below for information about how to apply to fill one of these vacancies

Developing election districts was a bigger challenge than anticipated, but the Board of Directors adopted the first Election District Map on April 6, 2011. And then, the Butterfield Park MDWCA, Organ WSA and Brazito MDWCA members voted to merge with us, so voting districts had to be redrawn, and now there are seven instead of five. These districts were adopted by the Board and an Election Proclamation was issued by Resolution on January 16, 2013 and has been filed with the County Clerk.

Our consultant, Vencor Engineering, identified each property within our Service Area by Parcel ID Number and owner information, and our staff put together our member and customer lists with the Parcel ID Numbers, this data was compared and collated by Vencor to establish a location on the map for each eligible voter. The Service Area was then divided into seven districts with an approximately equal number of eligible voters.

PLEASE NOTE that our Election District Map is NOT the same as our Service Area Map. Our Service Area is based on our Place of Use of our water rights and is mapped by Section, Township & Range. Election District boundaries need to be easily recognizable geographical features such as streets, rivers, canals, etc. Our Election District boundaries extend outside of our Service Area in order to show these features, but only Members of the Authority are eligible to vote. In order to be a Member, a person must own real property within our Service Area and receive service from us to that property.

We encourage our Members to be sure that we have your current and up-to-date account and property information on file for our voter rolls. The link above will open a PDF document of the District Map with a bit more detail than this image to help you see which is your voting district.